As the narrator reminisced at the end of a journey, the painful nostalgia permeated into me as I finished my journey. The protagonist finds himself welling with emotion as his plane lands back in Tokyo and the Beatles song ‘Norwegian Wood’ transports him back to his teenage years. Despite the sparse writing style, he pulled me into a busy world of forlorn love-lost nostalgia. With only the shifting landscape from my window as distraction, I plunged into Murakami’s gentle world and finished the book in one sitting. In 2014, before I had a smartphone, ‘Norwegian Wood’ was the only entertainment I had on a 21-hour train ride from the countryside city of Guilin to Shanghai in China. My first experience of Murakami was in the place most people start with him, ‘Norwegian Wood’. Fresh copies of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's new novella "The City and Its Uncertain Walls" PHILIP FONG/AFP or licensors Why I love Murakami
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